The author's concluding argument is that the negative effects of new media technology can only be ameliorated through critical thought. In the final section, the author details the ways in which new media technologies are contributing to the destruction of language and knowledge. Through use of new media, the USA attempts to limit the ability of people to reject its narratives. The author posits that the US government uses new media technology as a propaganda tool. The next section addresses recent examples of ways in which government agencies have used new media technologies as a surveillance tool. The author begins by describing the socio-political landscape at the time Orwell wrote the novel. An over-arching position is taken that real-world governments have utilised new media technologies in ways that make themselves comparable to Orwell's fictional "Big Brother". In short, the leaders will be following the voters. The assertion is made that these parallels have developed as a consequence of new media technologies. A new Politico /Morning Consult poll found that 31 percent of Americans flat out consider China an enemy.
This article offers an academic critique of new media culture, as viewed comparatively with George Orwell's "1984." The author makes the argument that a number of plot elements of "1984" are reflected within contemporary Western societies.
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